New Labour

STUART WHITE is Tutorial Fellow in Politics at Jesus College, Oxford. He is co-editor, with David Halpern, Stewart Wood and Gavin Cameron, of Options for Britain: A Strategic Policy Review. He is currently working to complete a book, The Civic Minimum: An Essay on the Rights and Obligations of Economic Citizenship.

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: New Labour and Future of Progressive Politics; S.White PART I: THE IDEOLOGY OF NEW LABOUR The Ambiguities of the Third Way; S.White New Labour: Old Liberalism; S.Beer New Labour and Public Opinion: The Third Way as Centrism?; P.Norris PART II: NEW LABOUR IN GOVERNMENT Education and Training: Tensions at the Heart of the British Third Way; S.Wood New Labour: A Distinctive Vision of Welfare Policy?; P.Johnson Enabling Participation? New Labour's Welfare to Work Policies; C.Oppenheim A Third Way in Industrial Relations?; C.Crouch Decentralization under New Labour: A Civic Liberal Perspective; S.Teles & M.Landy Feminism and the Third Way: A Call for Dialogue; A.Coote PART III: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES The Collapse of Bill Clinton's Third Way; M.Weir Prolegomena to the Third Way Debate; M.Salvati European Social Democracy and the Third Way: Convergence, Divisions, and Shared Questions; F.Vandenbroucke The SPD and the Neue Mitte in Germany; A.Busch & P.Manow Dutch Lessons in Social Pragmatism; A.Hemerijck & J.Visser Pluralism and the Future of the French Left; L.Bouvet & F.Michel Conclusion: New Labour and the Uncertain Futures of Progressive Politics; S.Giaimo & S.White Index